The Mane Event

The Mane Event
Season 3, Episode 1B (52)
Episode name pun on: The main event
Airdate:	July 28, 2000
Credits
Director:	Genndy Tartakovsky
Story:	Don Shank
Writer(s):	Lynne Naylor-Reccardi
See also
episode transcript	image gallery
Episodes
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Rating

"The Mane Event" is the second episode in the third season of The Powerpuff Girls. It is the fifty-second episode overall.

Synopsis

After Bubbles and Buttercup give Blossom a bad haircut, she gets made fun of by everybody in the city, when an all-seeing monster appears.

Plot

It started off like any other morning: the sun rose up and shone through the girls' windows, awakening them from their slumber. Bubbles is the first to rise, her hair in tangles. Then Buttercup wakes up, her hair equally a mess. But when Blossom wakes up, her hair is absolutely perfect: It's straight, luscious and shiny, the qualities any sane girl would want. Bubbles and Buttercup look at each other and smile as they silently form ideas.

Bubbles and Buttercup brushing Blossom's long hair

The two of them groom Blossom's beautiful hair, until they end up angering her with their ridiculous styles (a racetrack with hairpin turns, and Fluffy the Hair Bunny). "Give me a real hairdo!" Blossom requests, so they begin combing out the tangles, but when Buttercup finds a knot, she begins to tug on it, subsequently ripping out a large portion of the hair. Shocked at what's befallen them, they casually state that they just have to trim it up a bit, but all that does is worsen the situation. Just then, the hotline rings. Blossom picks it up as per usual, but when she orders the girls to "move out," they can just barely hold in their laughter, but they won't tell her what it is. So she flies out downtown, not wanting to deal with the girls, which is when they fall over laughing.

When we finally get to see the results of their work, even the narrator is laughing at her atrocious haircut. They come to a giant, floating monster with eyes on all sides, but as the girls try to fight it, the monster laughs at Blossom's hair. She still doesn't realize what's going on, but as Bubbles, Buttercup and Townsville's citizens look and laugh, she turns to a glass window and sees her ruined hair revealing the reason why everyone is laughing at her. Blossom gets so humiliated that she flies home, hiding under the Professor's bedsheets and feeling upset. As she watches the live news, she can't help but feel even worse. The reporter says that, since the monster can see everything, the girls just won't be able to defeat it. The professor comes in and comforts her until she's finally comfortable with her hair—when she gets an idea.

She goes back down to downtown, this time acting like the clown she looks like. No only does the monster laugh at her hair, but also at the jokes that she so calmly tells him. The monster laughs so hard that he shuts all his eyes, and the girls end up defeating it easily. The towns people celebrate, and after Bubbles asks if they're even, Blossom zaps their hair into hot messes and tells them "we're even." This results in Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup all receiving bad haircuts.

So once again the day is shaved—thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!

Trivia/Errors

• There is an error on Buttercup's dress, it was pink like Blossom's dress at 4:31.
• This is the only episode where the Powerpuff Girls wore long-sleeved variants of their nightgowns. In all other episodes, they only wore sleeveless versions of them.
• This the only episode in which Blossom's hair bow is excluded entirely.
• This is one of the only three episodes of season three that Genndy Tartakovsky directed.
• When Bubbles snaps the chain with the ball on it, in order to stop the eye monster, in a brief second, she hasn't any stockings.
• The sound effect of the eyeball monster's beam is the same for Mojo's liquid-electron gun in "Mo Job".
• At 2:43, behind Blossom, there is a drawing with a character similar to The Smurfs.
• This episode's plot is similar to that of Bubblevision, except there it's Bubbles who looks stupid.
• This episode has been noted for having a plot similar to the Recess episode "Bad Hair Day".
• Behind the scenes this episode was an animation disaster, having to draw Blossom's hairstyle differently than normal.
• The title of the news about the attack of the giant floating monster with eyes on all sides on the city of Townsville, is "Eye carumba", which is a reference to Bart Simpson from The Simpsons and his famous catchphrase, "Ay caramba!".
• The eyeball monster closely resembles the Eye of Folger, a giant floating black orb from the anime OVA Giant Robo: The Night The Earth Stood Still.